A summer evening at Geneseo - feat. Never Miss

[CH2Tdriver]

My latest production features the P-51 Mustang 'Never Miss', who happened to oblige me with multiple photo ops on a beautiful evening against the backdrop of a gorgeous sunset in the Genesee Valley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XXuhaDPnvo

For those who've been here, take a moment, kick back, relax, imagine wandering the fields beer in hand, the smell of natural fertilizer wafting through your nose.....and the chirp of crickets interupted by the growl of a Merlin!

Crank your speakers for the full effect!

Enjoy,
Pete

[The Inspector]

Nice work! Did they find and replace the misfiring sparkplug that kept going 'bloop' 'bloop'?

[CH2Tdriver]

Oh..is that what that sound indicated? To my untrained ear it sounded great to me!

[51fixer]

Nice work! Did they find and replace the misfiring sparkplug that kept going 'bloop' 'bloop'?

A Merlin can sound different at idle depending on-
Spark Plugs- Original British Type, Champion Aircraft Type or Champion Auto Racing each is a little different.
Magnetos- BTH, Rotax or General Motors Northeast. Each sounds a little different and even point gap will change things a hair.
Cams- -7, -9 and Transports each have a different profile and will idle differently.
Carbs- There is an idle bleed air circuit difference between the carb for a -7 and -9. It affects idle cross over in some ranges and sounds different at times because of it. Then their is idle mixture.
I listened to it and I didn't hear anything that would cause me alarm.
As for important issues, thats why a pilot does a runup, so hopefully he will find and recognize any issues.

[The Inspector]

I agree, but it shouldn't be making a missing cylinder sound @ power and you can distinctly hear 'bloop' 'bloop' 'bloop' every time the airplane passes whether on the ground or pulling big manifold pressure during a pass.In hydros we went after the plugs because one wasn't firing or not firing correvctly and the 'bloop' was the half burned charge exiting that stack.

[jcw]

the only important thing here is i'm not flying her.. i really miss flying that machine.. it is a good machine and they get to enjoy it now...

having another 3 beers and hope the feeling goes away

jcw

[AIRIC]

Great video, well done. My wife is in the front seat of the Stearman heading out for a sunset flight over Letchworth with Quentin Marty. Some of the photos are posted here http://www.airic.ca/html/2011geneseostearmanflt.html The video brings back some great memories.

Eric

Oh ya, notice the beer in hand after the flight